Practice, Practice,Practice.

[Wolf1477]

I have seen guys empty their deer rifles without every firing a shot, they just kept working the bolt until the mag was empty without ever pulling the trigger.

I've seen it too, only thing I can figure is it's less recoil that way, doesn't hurt as bad to miss<g>

 

[davidmcbeth]

i'm best with my 357 ruger single action ..... outside of my AK47 & colt rifle ... and my double barrel ... and my lever action. Heck I can shoot any gun well after becoming familiar with it ... with the exception of my MAC10, which is a POS...

 

[Old Grump]

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He fired as many as 7 rounds at 20 feet at a man sized target and only made one significant body shot(to the leg). The shot to the forhead I understand was superficia.
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From what I understand he waved a bystander away from the shotgunner so I'd say he acted responsibly. He was facing the muzzle of a shotgun and still connected twice out of 7 shots, pretty cool if you ask me. If you ever looked into a guns muzzle pointed at you from 20' you wouldn't be quite as harsh, now make that a shotguns muzzle and he was cool indeed.

I agree 100% that practice, serious practice is called for by anybody carrying a gun but considering the number of shots fired in an average encounter and the low hit rate by everybody I would say he did as well as anybody and better than most. I won't condemn his marksmanship, he did the best he could do under trying circumstances. I do wish it had been better but he stopped the bad guy, call it a win.

100% on your air gun recommendation, Taught my kids with a BB gun before they went to a 22 and 50+ years later I still practice using air rifles and pistols.

 

[Captain Nemo]

I get the impression that some on this forum think I am condemning the Aldi shooter's marksmanship. I meant nothing of the kind. My intent was to use it as an example. I have nothing but praise for his actions. He himself commented that he needed more range time. I think it is possible he is typical of many people getting CCL's. Buy a gun find out that ammo is $30 a box go to a range, probably a good distance away, fire half the box and then think that at the price of ammo and range time that's good enough. I don't know what this shooter's reason are but I do know the above senario is factual because I have witnessed it. Under stress most of those people couldn't hit the side of a barn from the inside.

I consider myself a better than average marksman. What would I do in a confrontation? I don't know. I don't want to find out. Maybe I'll poop my pants and run screaming down the street. However, if I do keep my wits I do know that I'm equal to neutralizing the situation without endangering innocents. I don't support mandatory training but I do support promicious practice. The intent of my post was not meant to be demeaning to the Aldi shooter but to recommend alternative low cost ways to improve our marksmanship. If that isn't the message that came accross then Miss McGillicuddy failed in her task.